Autographic register.



No. 688,975. Patented Dec. l7, IQIOI. J. J. &. W. SHEEHY.

AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER.

' (Application filed May 21, 1901.] (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

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AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

(Application filed may 81, 1801.)

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WITH/58858 ATT IVEVS NITED Srn rns nrnnr FFICE.

JEREMIAH JOHN SHEEHY AND WILLIAM SHEEHY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,975, dated December17, 1901.

Application filed May 21, 1901. Serial No. 61,242. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we," JEREMIAH JOHN SHEEHY and WILLIAM SHEEHY, citizensof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full and completespecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for making a number of copies of amemorandum of a sale or like transaction or for registering other datasimilarly, and has especial reference to devices by which three copiesmay be made at once. This is very readily possible by using three stripsof paper intervened by two carbon-sheets, and after one has written uponthe paper, the three strips may be grasped and pulled and torn OK.

It is the chief object of our invention to make a device by means ofwhich one strip receives all three copies of the memorandu m,

which copies may be torn off together by pulling the end of just the onestrip.

It is further the object of our invention to produce a simple, cheap,easily-operated, and effective device for accomplishing this result.

With these ends in view our invention consists in the novel constructionand arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhich like reference-letters designate corresponding parts in theseveral views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the table or arm-restturned outwardly, showing the carbon-roll beneath. Fig. 3 is atransverse Vertical section through the center of the device, and Fig. 4is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

In the practice of our invention We construct a frame composed of twoside plates or standards A, connected by cross-bars A at either side andcentrally by a shaft B, which constitutes the roller on which is woundthe paper or record-strip 0. Upon the inside of each of the plates A ispivoted at a a yoke or rocking frame D. These yokes range from one sideof the machine to the other, their arms D at one side being connected bya cross-bar E, secured to and intervening their upper ends, and the armsD on the opposite side being connected by acutting-blade F, mountedthereon and extending therebetween. Smaller yokes G, provided withcentral depending lugs b, are pivoted to the yokes or frames D by meansof pins 0 upon the upper yokes G, which pins work in slots d in thelower or main yokes D. Arigidly-secured table or platenv II extends fromone end of the device to the other, being secured to each of the sideplates A, and between this table and the upper yokes G are insertedplatesprings I, the tendency of which is downward from the table againstthe said yokes and which maintain the latter normallyin an approximatelyhorizontal position. Besides their pivotal connection with the loweryokes D the said upper yokes G are formed with pivots e, which work inshort vertical slots f in the sides A.

In the ends of the yoke G, at the side of the machine adjacent tothe-cross -bar E, are journaled two shafts or rollers J, one above theother, and in the opposite ends of the yokes is journaled, immediatelybeneath the cutting-blade F, a shaft or roller J. The paper C passesupwardly around the first roller J, across the table or platen H,beneath the roller' J, around it, across the platen for the second time,beneath and around the upper roller J, and across the platen for thethird time, whereupon the free end of the said paper hangs down looselyover the roller J.

Upon the outside of one of the plates A is secured a bracket K, in whichis journaled a roller L, having wound upon the same two contactingstrips of carbon-paper N, one of which passes beneath the upper slip ofthe paper 0 and the other beneath the second or middle slip of thepaper, the said carbon ranging transversely of the strip. If the stripis printed with checks or other memoranda, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawings, these checks will require to be printed alternately onopposite faces of the strip, so as to come properly beneath the carbon.This, however, is not an essential feature of the invention, which canbe used with any desired paper. Upon the outer end of the bracket K ispivoted a ledge or arm-rest N", which normally rests over thecarbon-paper and its roller, as shown in Fig. 1. At the opposite end ofthe machine the carbon-pa per passes beneath a cross-bar N The operationof thedevice will be readily understood from the foregoing description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the ad vantagesresultant from the use 'of our invention will be manifest to all who areconversant with devices of this character.

The paper being suitably applied upon the device, as best shown in Fig.3, and it being desired to use the machine,the memorandum is writtenupon the top slip with lead pencil, whereupon a duplicate impression ismade upon the portions of the paper beneath the carbon-paper. Thewriting being completed, the free end of the paper 0 is grasped and thecross-bar E is depressed, thereby elevating the knife or cutting-bladeF. The free end of the paper is then, pulled until the portions of thestrip on which the writing is contained have been Withdrawn, whereuponthe cross-bar E is released, thus through the agency of the springs Iforcing down the knife F, against the outer edge of which the paper isdrawn to cut it off. The three checks or slips are so connected togetherand may be indiyidually separated, or they may be separated oneby one asfast as they are Withdrawn.

In the operation the carbon-paper remains stationary, and when theportions thereof beheath the writing-paper have been sufficiently usedor worn the free ends of the carbon-paper maybe pulled to bring freshportions beneath. It will be observed that the blade F frictionallyengages the paper immediately above its free endand prevents itsunwinding when it is being cut or torn off and also when it is beingwritten upon. Since the spring I bears downwardly upon the yoke G, whichis vertically movable in its pivot f, and since the yoke G is pivotallyconnected with the center of the yoke D, which is pivoted near one endat a, the pressure ofthe spring I istherefo're exerted both to depressthe yoke Grand also to depress the major portion of theyoke D to theright of its pivotal point a in Fig. 3,'thus holding the rear edge ofthe knife-blade F against the paper and against the roller J. Upondepressing the cross-bar E the yoke D will be moved upon its pivotalpoint a to elevate the major portion thereof and the knife-blade.Simultaneously it will elevate the yoke G by reason of the pivotalconnection of the center of the yoke D with the center of the yoke G.This central pivotal connection, however, being a considerable distancenearer the pivotal point a, the yoke G will be raised but slightlyrelatively to the elevation of that end of the yoke D which carries theknife-blade. Hence the blade will be elevated out of contact with thepaper and the roller-J thereof, and similarly when thecross-bar E isreleased and the spring I forces down the yoke G and the yoke D theknife-blade will be depressed thereby to a greater extent than the yokeD, as will be readily understood.

\Ve do not confine ourselves to the exact formation of parts andconstruction of details herein shown and described, as we conoeive ourinvention to be novel in its plan and broad in its scope.

Having fully described our-invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An autographic register comprising a main frame, a supplemental framepivoted therein and provided with two rollers at one end, one superposedabove the other, and with a single roller at the other end, apaperholding roller beneath the same whereby the paper may be passedbetween'the two rollers, across the device and beneath and around theopposite roller, again across and between the two rollers and over theupper one and then back and over the single roller, another pivotedframe D'having a cross-bar at one end and a cross-blade at the oppositeend,

and mounted in operative connection with the main frame and thesupplemental frame and adapted to be actuated by the depression of itscross-bar to elevate its opposite crossblade, and means tending normallyto depress the said cross-blade, substantially as shown and described.

2. An autographic register provided with two rollers at one end,superposed one above the other, and a rollerat the opposite end, apaper-h oldin g roller beneath the same whereby the paper may be passedbetween the two rollers, across the device and around the oppositeroller, again across and between the two rollers and around the upperone, and

thence again across the device; means for holding carbon-paper betweenthe foldsof the paper whereby a plurality of copies may be made on thesamestrip, a knife bearing upon the paper above the single roller andadapted to check the withdrawal thereof, and by means whereof the paperwithdrawn may be torn off, and spring-operated means governing saidknife and normally retaining it in checking relation withthe saidpaper,and said knife adapted to be operated to elevate the same out ofchecking relation with the said paper. i

3. An autographic register, comprising two side frames connectedtogether,a roller intervening the same adapted to receive the copy-paperthereon, yokes pivoted near one side of the device and directed upwardlyand carrying a cross-bar at one end, a knife-blade mounted upon theopposite end of the yokes having its cutting edge directed outwardly,supplemental yokes pivotally connected with the main yokes and slidablyconnected with the side frames, a pair of rollers superposed one abovethe other and mounted in line with the supplemental yokes, a singleroller mounted in the opposite end of said yokes, whereby the paper maybe passed around one of the two rollers across the device around thesingle roller, again across and around the upper roller and again acrossthe device to hang over the single roller beneath and in normalfrictional engagement with the knife, a table secured between the sideframes, a pocket at one end of the device, a roller mounted therein, aplurality of sheets of carbon paper .mounted upon the said roller andpassing transversely across the copy-paper between the folds thereof, apivoted ledge or arm-rest mounted over the said carbon-roller, acrossbar ranging across the ends of the carbon-paper, and springsmounted between the table JEREMIAH JOHN SHEEI-IY. WILLIAM SHEEHY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. ONEILL, EDWARD A. CLOONAN.

